Monarch 9460 LSTRIP

Command Reference 5-57

LSTRIP

Purpose Strips characters from a field, and copies the remaining characters to another field.

Syntax LSTRIP

field-buffer1, field-buffer2, field-buffer3

[

,

[

invalid label

] [

, valid label

] ]

Process The LSTRIP command strips the left-most characters from

field-buffer1

and copies

the remaining characters to

field-buffer2

.

Field-buffer3

is the number of characters

to strip.

Field-buffer1

,

field-buffer2

, and

field-buffer3

can be one of the following:

Field-buffer1, Field-

Buffer2, and Field-

Buffer3

Description

INPUT Input Buffer

Logical Field Name

(TEMP1)

Temporary Buffer

Field

Logical Field Name (LU1) Lookup Buffer Field

Logical Field Name (PR1) Printer Buffer Field

Field-buffer1

and

Field-

buffer2

only:

String

ASCII string delimited

by double quotes.

Field-buffer3

only:

Number

Number prefixed by a

number sign (#)

Optional Fields

Invalid

and

valid labels

are discussed in "Script Flow" at the beginning of this

chapter.

Example

This example strips the five left-most characters from the SHIP_NO field and

copies the remaining characters to the SKU field.

LSTRIP SHIP_NO, SKU, #5

See Also

TSTRIP

RSTRIP

CSTRIP

Contents

Main Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page Page OVERVIEW How to Use this Manual A Review of Terms Page USING THE SOFTWARE System Requirements Quick Reference Operators Handbook Installing the Software Getting Started Page Saving a File About Projects 1. 2. 3. Building Projects Changing the Download Settings If you select COM1 - COM4: 4. If you select LPT1 LPT2: 5. Downloading a Project Editing Existing Projects Page PRINTER PROCEDURES Displaying the Ready Prompt No Application Loaded Application 1. Loading Applications Restarting Existing Applications Loading New Applications PROGRAM STRUCTURE Functions Starting a Script Files and Buffers Lookup Table Definition Temporary Storage Definition Printer Definition Scope of Field Names Script Flow Control Comments in a Script Data Storage Data Coding COMMAND REFERENCE Programming Conventions Field Names Keywords Page Special Characters Script Flow When a label is NOT defined... When a label is defined... Functional Relationships Math Commands Script Control Commands Compiler Directives Data Manipulation Commands File Management Commands Input/Output Commands ADD APPVERSION ARGREAD ASC AUTOSTART AVAILABLEDATA BITCLEAR BITMASK BITSET BITSHIFT BITTEST BSEARCH CALL param1, param2, ,paramX Example 1 Param param Page CHARTYPE CHECK Page CHR CLEAR item Example 2 Example 1 Item CLOSECOMM COMPARE CONCAT CSTRIP DATATYPE DEC DEFINE Field-type data-typ field-type Data-type Page DELAY DISABLE DIVIDE ENABLE EXIT FETCH FIELDLEN FIXDATA Buffer-field1 Example Buffer Field1 GENERATE GET HOTKEY IF buffer-field2 Buffer-fields buffer-fields Page INC INCLUDE INSERT JUMP label Example LABELCOUNT LEFT LINKFILE file-name Example 1 format-name\file-name LOCATE LOWER LSTRIP MACRO Page MID MOVE Page MULTIPLY OPENCOMM PAD PARSE , valid label Example valid labels Invalid PRINT QUERY Page READ RESTORESCREEN RETURN RIGHT RSTRIP SAVESCREEN SEEK SUB SWITCH Page SYSSET parameter2 function, parameter1, and parameter2 parameter2 parameter1 Function/Description Parameter1 Parameter2 Example TOKEN TSTRIP UPPER VALIDATE , valid label Example valid labels Invalid WHILE buffer-field1 comparison buffer-field2 Comparison Buffer-field Page Page SAMPLE SCRIPT A Page Page Page INDEX A B C D F G H I J Q R S T